<p>i was a national merit commended student and i was asked to choose two colleges so that collegeboard could send them my name. is there anyone out there who was in the same situation and actually got accepted into one of the colleges they choose? or maybe even heard back from them?</p>
<p>anyone??? :]</p>
<p>Congratulations on your commended status!</p>
<p>Colleges don't send you letters of acceptance based on your PSAT scores, but notifying them puts you on their radar (or, more accurately, on their "hot sales prospects" list). It tells them, here is a kid who may be a good qualified student, and (s)he is interested in us.</p>
<p>Expect to get some extra junk mail and email from your two colleges -- probably quite a bit of it. And, if they're not top-tier schools, possibly some personal contact and/or a special application with a fee waiver and that sort of thing.</p>
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<p>Depends on the schools. I put down two Ivies and got only a bit of mail from both of them (I applied ED to one of them). Based on the people I know who got commended/semifinalist in the class before me, putting down those two schools (if they're in the top 10, that is) doesn't really change much; you're probably going to put your commendation on your applications somewhere anyway, so all the schools you apply to will find out. Getting anything National Merit is nice, but like everything else, it isn't a guarantee of acceptance.</p>
<p>thanks geek_mom and thanks hatoyama for the reply:]</p>